Domestic Geek

I am a child of the 80s. Check out this and this too. Ahhh, memories. Thanks to Trifling for the link.

Current mood: irritated

Ok, I don't know where the idea originated that people who work for pizza places can give out free pizzas. It's been one of my pet peeves as long as I've worked in the pizza business (11 years in April). I've gone off on many a convenience store clerk for "jokes" about refusing me service unless I brought in free pizza. There are many businesses that have lost my patronage because of being hassled by employees. I once left an entire basket of groceries at the checkout stand to make a point. Only once do I ever remember a manager scolding an employee for begging free pizzas off me. People don't ask convenience store clerks for free gasoline or WalMart employees for free merchandize, why pizza? I've never understood it. I used to be able to laugh it off, but after a few years of constant badgering, I don't take it anymore. Most pizza places don't even let their employees have free pizza. Even eating ones rejected by customers for one reason or another can be grounds for firing at some chains. It all comes down to common courtesy. Too bad there is not much of it out there.

One of the few resolutions I made for this new year was to stop drinking Coke. I was tired of being addicted to caffeine and the sugar and carbonation is not good for me. So, I got myself a Mr. Coffee Iced Tea Pot with the Christmas money I got this year. I love this thing! The only problem is that since I gave up drinking Coke, I go through a lot of decaffeinated tea. My poor icemaker can't keep up. I also have a dog that is addicted to ice cubes (the Alaskan Malamute, of course!). So.....I had to dig out my old ice trays yesterday.

More from Chris Pirillo:

• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
  
• Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
  
• There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
  
• The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
  
• A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
  
• There are more chickens than people in the world.
  
• Two thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
  
• On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
  
• All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
  
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
  
• All 50 US states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the US$5 bill.
  
• Almonds are a member of the peach family.
  
• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
  
• Maine is the only US state whose name is just one syllable.
  
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
  
• In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
  
• Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
  
• The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
  
• A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
  
• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
  
• A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
  
• The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
  
• In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
  
• Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
  
• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
  
• There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
  
• The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
  
• The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
  
• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David. Clubs - Alexander the Great. Hearts - Charlemagne. Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
  
• If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
  
• Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
  
• The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
  
• The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is CURRENTLY necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
  
• The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
  
• Coca-Cola was originally green.
  
• It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
  
• In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class.
  
• City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong.
  
• State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.
  
• Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%. Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%.
  
• Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33 (99-58-83).
  
• Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7.
  
• Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%. Percentage of American women who say they'd marry the same man: 50%.
  
• Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400.
  
• Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
  
• Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland / DisneyWorld: 70%.
  
• Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
  
• The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
  
• The youngest pope was 11 years old.
  
• Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
  
• First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
  
• In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (e.g., two- way radios in taxicabs) but did they did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.

No post yesterday. I felt like being totally lazy. When I got home from work, I felt like watching television, so I did. There was a Star Trek:TNG marathon on TNN. I wandered around blogworld for a few hours (where did the time go?), but never got around to making a post of my own. Oh, well. I did manage to get a load of dishes and a load of laundry done, though.

That's not going to be the case today, though. Two months will go by in a flash and I have much to do before (if) Marcus' parents come. I have to take my Christmas stuff to storage as it is STILL sitting by my front door. The weather is supposed to turn crappy tomorrow and if I don't take it today, it will all be sitting there next Monday.

I actually connected to ICQ for once. Amazing. Marcus emailed them and they claim the problem is on our end. Since we have not changed our setting and sometimes neither of us can get on, sometimes he can get on and I can't or vice versa, and sometimes we can both get on, I think it is their problem. I've been reading the ICQ discussion boards and many people are having the same problem. I wish they'd just admit that something is wrong that they have yet to figure out how to correct. It would be better than blaming the wrong party and getting everybody pissed off in the process. OK, no more mention of ICQ in my posts until somebody comes up with a fix.

Marcus cleaned all of his stray computer equipment off of the weight machine and I'm going to work out today. I know one of the reasons I hav been so down is all the extra weight I'm carrying around. I've always been overweight, but I've packed on 80 more pounds in the last 10 years and 20 of those in the time since I started school and quit driving.

First things first, though. Today is bill paying day. ICK! This is not going to be fun as my last paychecks sucked ass and I had to pay car registration this month. :( Well, better get to it.